1968

Next class executive committee/mini-reunion meeting in Hanover on Saturday October 22—please try to join us. Our last one, this past July, was a terrific day. Executive committee in the morning, golf, bike riding and other stuff in the afternoon, with an early evening barbeque at Helen and Pete Fahey's. The usual gang of '68 suspects (13 plus many significant others) were in attendance throughout the day, plus a couple new faces: Dick Olson (for both exec committee and golf) and Frank Gump (for golf). Frank distinguished himself by hitting something like four trees in a row on the first hole alone, yet going on to beat the assembled coed class golfers by one stroke. That might tell you a bit about the quality of the rest of the golfers. Golf gave me a chance to get caught up with Dick. A native of lowa, he had never been east of central Illinois when he applied to Dartmouth. He arrived at Dartmouth with Norm Jones, with whom he'd grown up. An English major, he was active in the Dartmouth Christian Union and in the antiwar movement. And, he added, in playing cards and drinking a lot of beer at the Wigs. After Dartmouth, three years in the Army in North Carolina and seven years in Racine, Wisconsin, working for a community labor newspaper. Dick spent 22 years with the United Auto Workers in Detroit, in the public relations department, the last four years as editor of their publications. He retired in 2001 and spends his time perfecting his golf (not particularly noticeable at the Hanover CC this last July, he acknowledges), working with the Grosse Point Democratic Club and with a group working to preserve Social Security. And Dick volunteered to serve as editor for our class' 40th reunion yearbook! (Remember to save the date: last weekend in June 2008). Wife Deborah is lawyer in independent practice. They have twin sons, Dan '04 (still around Hanover doing engineering), and Josh, an Oberlin grad heading to Stanford Law; daughter Elizabeth is entering ninth grade. Let's close the column with the host of press releases recently received in the mailbox: Ken Warner becoming dean of the University of Michigan School of Public Health; Gary Horlick named the world's leading trade and customs lawyer in the recent Who's Who Legal Awards; Dennis Drapkin appointed chair of the American Bar Association Section of Taxation; and (you may have seen it elsewhere too) Arnie Resnicoff recruited from the Navy (after 28 years) to join the Ar Force as a special assistant to the secretary and chief of staff on values and vision, to lead the Air Force in developing new guidelines on religious tolerance. Congratulations to all. Keep the news coming.

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